Did you say friends, or fiends? Either is good... :) Where did these redistributable characters come from? I think they're just CR2s (figure files) without the morphs, which is what makes them redistributable. In other words, if you haven't bought the full Vicki 2 and/or Mike 2, you won't have the OBJ and they won't work. I have to add, before you get your money out, that although Vicki and Mike can be made to work in Poser 3, it isn't an easy ride. They'll work fine in DAZ|Studio, but that's limited in what it can do at the moment. You might be able to get somewhere by using a combination of the two.